Our family used to live in the “twin cities” metropolis of Hoxie/Walnut Ridge, Arkansas. Flat, soggy rice farms and constantly used railroads dominated the region’s landscape. Road connections confused me, causing me, at times, to take a circuitous route to the desired destination. I simply did not understand how everything fit together. Then one day, I saw a series of…
Faith and reason are complementary not contradictory. Like a team, when they work together they increase their power. When one stumbles the other can provide the needed stability, but when they work against one another, there can be serious trouble. In our fallen world many sources charge Christianity with the thought crime of irrationality. These charges are weak attempts to…
In 1925 an American media circus descended on the small town of Dayton, Tn. when the town attempted to prosecute a schoolteacher for the use of Charles Darwin’s Origen of Species, that functioned as an important catalyst for the theory of evolution. Newspapers presented the spectacle as reason v. religion. Since that time many Christians have hunkered down in an…
